Manager Handling Weirdness

ovccsteve · 09-08-2016, 01:38 PM

I'm not sure if this is happening a lot, or I just noticed these two.
Last season, I let my manager leave when his contract expired. He had a Legendary status, had an insanely high win pct and plenty of championships, and his manager ratings were outstanding. I let him go because of how much money he was demanding. He immediately signed with a Single A team. I cancelled that contract and he signed a AA contract. (I then took over that organization and moved him to be their major league manager.)
Today, a team fired their manager, so I checked him out. Prior to being hired as a major league manager before this season, he had been a career hitting coach, never at the major league level, and his manager ratings are Meh. And he's 66.
Is anyone else seeing incomprehensible personnel moves?

ovccsteve · 09-08-2016, 01:56 PM

Okay, another manager just got fired at the end of September. His ratings are great though his results haven't been. Anyway, he signed immediately as a hitting coach in Single A after managing at the Major-League level for two clubs over five years. I think something is wrong here.

TheMaus2 · 09-08-2016, 02:15 PM

Coincedence? I think not.

I think managers are just weird, IMO. I've seen guys go from my 3rd tier minor league with a lousy record to managing a major league club.

Len1950 · 09-11-2016, 12:42 AM

Okay, two days before the end of the 2017 regular season, I get fired as GM of the Philadelphia Phillies. There's some logic to that. I've improved the team by 15 games over the previous season, but they are losing a bit of money (temporarily, I thought). Anyway, I see that the Seattle Mariners GM job is open, so I take that.

One day later, I'm fired again as GM of the Mariners, without having made a single move. I look in my mailbox, and I see that the Phillies want to re-hire me as GM!

In real life, I never accept this offer because I don't like working for crazy people, but I'd had a long term plan in place for the Phillies, and I really wanted to see it through. So why not finish what I'd started? So I'm back where I started, except that I've just changed all my bookmarks and now I have to change them back again.

TheMaus2 · 09-11-2016, 10:02 PM

Jeffery Loria much?

09-08-2016, 01:38 PM	#1
ovccsteve All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sanford, NC Posts: 579	Manager Handling Weirdness I'm not sure if this is happening a lot, or I just noticed these two. Last season, I let my manager leave when his contract expired. He had a Legendary status, had an insanely high win pct and plenty of championships, and his manager ratings were outstanding. I let him go because of how much money he was demanding. He immediately signed with a Single A team. I cancelled that contract and he signed a AA contract. (I then took over that organization and moved him to be their major league manager.) Today, a team fired their manager, so I checked him out. Prior to being hired as a major league manager before this season, he had been a career hitting coach, never at the major league level, and his manager ratings are Meh. And he's 66. Is anyone else seeing incomprehensible personnel moves?

09-08-2016, 02:15 PM	#3
TheMaus2 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The OOTP Forums. Always. Posts: 1,951	Coincedence? I think not. I think managers are just weird, IMO. I've seen guys go from my 3rd tier minor league with a lousy record to managing a major league club. __________________ I write a monthly newsletter on the Food Baseball Association. I also listen to music no one's ever heard of in hopes of looking cool and alternative.

09-11-2016, 12:42 AM	#4
Len1950 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 70	Team Owners are Crazy Okay, two days before the end of the 2017 regular season, I get fired as GM of the Philadelphia Phillies. There's some logic to that. I've improved the team by 15 games over the previous season, but they are losing a bit of money (temporarily, I thought). Anyway, I see that the Seattle Mariners GM job is open, so I take that. One day later, I'm fired again as GM of the Mariners, without having made a single move. I look in my mailbox, and I see that the Phillies want to re-hire me as GM! In real life, I never accept this offer because I don't like working for crazy people, but I'd had a long term plan in place for the Phillies, and I really wanted to see it through. So why not finish what I'd started? So I'm back where I started, except that I've just changed all my bookmarks and now I have to change them back again.

09-11-2016, 10:02 PM	#5
TheMaus2 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The OOTP Forums. Always. Posts: 1,951	Jeffery Loria much? __________________ I write a monthly newsletter on the Food Baseball Association. I also listen to music no one's ever heard of in hopes of looking cool and alternative.

09-08-2016, 01:56 PM	#2
ovccsteve All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sanford, NC Posts: 579	Okay, another manager just got fired at the end of September. His ratings are great though his results haven't been. Anyway, he signed immediately as a hitting coach in Single A after managing at the Major-League level for two clubs over five years. I think something is wrong here.